Register today for the 2025 Curious Minds Awards 

Get recognition for your amazing STEM Education while developing STEM learning and engagement in your school by applying for a Research Ireland Curious Minds Award today. Read more. 

Curious Minds Award Teacher Briefing Session  

Research Ireland are holding a Curious Minds Awards webinar to guide teachers on how to apply for an Award on Wednesday 22 January 2025 at 3:30pm. For more information, contact [email protected].  

Curious Minds/ESERO CPD   

Our free CPD courses help bring STEM to life in your classroom using hands-on, inquiry-based approaches. Sign up today. 

Curious Minds Taster Sessions for Individual Teachers 

This free 45 minute online course covers how STEM can be accessibly taught to all primary school ages in a practical, hands-on, enjoyable and interactive way. Read more 

Looking for an Engineers Week Activity? 

Search our Curious Minds Classroom Resources for exciting design and make ideas. Read more.

January-March 2025 applications for the ESA teacher workshops are now open!

Primary and Secondary school teachers and professional educators have the opportunity of getting a taste of the agency's activities and experience a range of STEM related tools and activities for the classroom, always using space as the context. Find out how to apply to the Primary teacher workshops here.

Mission X

Have you seen our newest Mission X resources?

Check out our latest video series to support your students training like an astronaut! Join the mission here.

ESERO Space Goes to School - Engineers Week (3rd-7th March 2025)

The ESERO Space Goes To School program brings real Space Industry professionals to your classroom via videoconference, for FREE! Your students will have a chance to learn from these experts and to engage with them. Find out more here.

Bricks 4 Kidz

Bricks 4 Kidz LEGO® Technic workshops can be utilised by schools to gain credits towards Research Ireland’s Curious Minds Awards. Find out more here!

National Museum of Ireland, Country Life

Design, make and keep your own classroom town! Construct buildings, make roads and paths, cut, colour and create each building and put them into your town layout. Read more.

W5

Multiverse Mayhem, 8th – 16th at W5 Belfast. Join our dimension-hopping scientists as they conduct as many exhilarating experiments as they can in 30 mind-bending minutes! Learn more.

RTÉ

What's Next? The RTÉ show where kids pitch their big ideas to save the planet. Find out more!

Coolest Projects Ireland

This free event gives young tech creators the opportunity to show their fantastic projects. Taking part can also be used towards the Tech and Show & Tell steps in the Curious Minds Awards. Learn more!

Explorium 

Explore, discover, and ignite curiosity in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths—Explorium offers unforgettable science and activity experiences for students of all ages in one exciting visit. Book your trip today!